Pharr, TX Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Service
- Mandatory for all residences/businesses
- Placement deadline
- By sanitation director's route time
- Removal deadline
- 6:30 p.m. on collection day
- Missed set-out
- Waits for next regular route
- Billing
- Set by city commission, billed as utility
Summary
Pharr requires every residence and commercial property to subscribe to city sanitation service, and the sanitation director sets a fixed collection day and route time for each address, with strict curbside placement and removal deadlines.
On each collection day, if any solid waste is to be collected, the following time limitations shall apply: Solid waste containers shall be placed at curbside no later than such time as the sanitation director shall designate... Such containers shall be removed to a location alongside of or at the rear of, but not at the front of, the residential or commercial premises by no later than 6:30 p.m. on the collection day.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 44).
Full Breakdown
Under Chapter 110, Article III of the city code, the sanitation director assigns each residence and commercial establishment a collection day and notifies the owner. Containers must be at curbside by the designated route time; missing that time means no pickup until the next regular route. After collection, containers must be pulled back to the side or rear of the property, not left at the front, by 6:30 p.m. the same day. Service is mandatory: every owner or occupant is billed as a subscriber under Sec. 110-3.
Violations & Fines
Leaving containers at curbside past 6:30 p.m. on collection day, or failing to subscribe to city sanitation service, is a Code violation subject to the general penalty in Sec. 1-6.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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